Hillary, they just don't like you

From The Sunday Times

June 8, 2008

Hillary, they just don't like you

It's not race or age or gender. It's simply that American voters have turned from the Clinton past to new hope in Obama

by Rod Liddle

I'm not sure how I'd feel if I were a black man watching Barack Obama win the Democratic presidential nomination and reading the eulogies pouring in from whitey. I have the suspicion that I would take myself off to the bathroom sharpish. Obama's victory has been cheered much as one might cheer a labrador that can balance rich tea biscuits on its nose -- and with that slightly sickly tone you get from news reports of the Paralympic Games. Oh, didn't he do well! And he's, you know, black! Bless him!

Obama's blackness is the least remarkable thing about him. Indeed he spent much of the campaign insisting that race was a non-issue, of no consequence, and being hawkish on immigration. Unlike his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who at certain opportune moments during the campaign blacked up as if she were about to break into a rendition of My Mammy.

Such is politics, I suppose. Obama ran a good campaign but he was helped by the fact that he was pitched against an opponent who had nothing whatsoever to commend her except for her gender -- that, and the fact that she was one of the fairly large number of women who very occasionally had sexual intercourse with a popular president, Bill Clinton. None of Bill's magic washed off on her; she appeared shrill, stiff, disingenuous and even vicious.

In the battle of competing beleaguered and supposedly unelectable minorities -- blacks v women -- Obama won for the perfectly respectable reason that he is charismatic, eloquent and has appeared less opportunistic than his rival. Aside from an unhealthy minority, people judge politicians not according to their skin or their gender, but by whether they suspect that if left alone in your drawing room for five minutes they would nick the silverware. Hillary, they thought, probably would. And the antimacassars. And the sideboard.

Now we have Obama v the representative from another equally disparaged minority: the elderly. John McCain is 71 and his bowels have been displayed for the edification of the American public, revealing "precancerous polyps". The electorate has also been enjoined to consider the melanomas that previously afflicted McCain's shoulder and the problems with his lymph and carotid glands. So the election itself may be a close call -- blackness v infirmity.

You hope the American public banish this from their minds and, on more rational grounds, go for Obama. Strip away the Vietnam hero stuff and the incontinence pads and McCain is revealed as a politician further to the right than a fish knife. You might hope, too, that Obama politely rejects the ministrations from his former opponent to become a running mate. They don't like Hillary much, the electorate, and it's not because of her race, age or gender.

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[Dream23fb]

They just don't like you?

Tell that to the 18 million that voted for her.

[miat1111]

Oh yes, missus clinton's base: the uninformed, the misinformed, the disinformed.

To know her is to dislike her. At a minimum.

[Fluke72459]

It don't matter who the president is, this is all part of a bigger plan.

[Fluke72459]

The voice in this video is most definatley electronic!

[dovecry2]

they are going to take away more than video games from Hillary..I hope she wakes up in time...Run Hillary Run...

[SoloColo2]

i heard she was ganna take away video games i meen all video games when she becomes president but were lucky she wasnt president if she was already we would be tortured to death

[Kriegbell]

that is....threaten the White House again!

[Kriegbell]

Today it's official. No hillary veep and the clintons will never thearen the White House again!

[Veltanschaung]

Obamegalomaniacs should go on stage with Bernie Mac calling all "mothers and sisters" ...."just Family 'Ho's"!! Now that's the Barack we know we can love and trust! Ludicr ass should be proud of you, and your sistah and mama...great stuff, and ain't just messin' with ya, man!

PUMAs rock!

NoBama '08

[xGirlPlay]

Well she's gone now.

[allahwasafag]

Hey Hillary:

Iron my shirt cunt!

[spiritdalord]

To be honest, I'd rather see Obama win the Presidency than Mcain. I would hope we could have a president that could live through his four years.